A TRAGIC STORY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 4

A TRAGIC STORY.

Discussing the fall of Antwerp, t he "Lyttelfcon Times" says: The city was the last stronghold of the Belgians, and although they still hold . strip of territory on the sea coast they have virtually lost their country for the time. Theirs has heen a tragic story. War has raged through the land since the dawn of history. Frank domination was followed by BurgilOdian, Burgundian by Austrian, Austrian by Spanish. Spanish by French When wars of conquest or war-; of freedom were not being fought, the lands were being laid waste in the name of religion. A pitiful ,tory,

Maeterlinck calls it, but it is really one long, tremendous tragedy. "lie country, not for the first time, lias had its' borders obliterated, but if we know anything of the of the Allies this generation will yet be privileged to see not only the ravages of war repaired but also me foundations laid of a greater Belgium, secured against the possibility of brother irruption of brutal, calculating Germans. For the moment the littl-j kingdom ceases to count in the wcr The remnant of her army needs a space of rest, but it will throw it< vf again into the turmoil with hardene < heart and undaunted heroism. Tlio fall of Antwerp does not make for a longer war, but it makes for ,a fiercespirit of against the invaders, a fortification of determinition to end for ever the possibility nf a repetition of tho horrors of the past two months.